A letter from SGI

Posted Oct 1, 2003 21:10 UTC (Wed) by bajw (guest, #11712)
In reply to: A letter from SGI by TheOneKEA
Parent article: A letter from SGI

SGI has been consistently very good in their dealings with Linux. Years ago, they decided to donate their XFS journaling file system to Linux and have followed through and done so under the GPL. It is one of the filesystems now available on Linux that gives it the 'enterprise class' feature of journaling. If I recall correctly, it was the first journaling file system to be offered to the Linux kernel hackers, predating Ext3, IBM's JFS, ReiserFS, and whatever others there are today.
They have provided a lot of engineering time to Linux development and have been a conistently solid supporter of Linux, including their numerous contributions the Right Way. Their creation, XFS, is now licensed under the GPL. They have made other significant contributions, which thay also GPL'd.
Clearly, they "get it" and work hard to do right. A very honorable and respectable company, it seems to me.
Thank you, SGI.